I have just had my personal project corrupt on me which i have been timing the total work on totaling 43 hours. Its a PSD file with multiple layers however its 1.3GB. Does anyone know any ways of recovering this.
The image is just grey noise with a black line across and all metadata has gone entirely.

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I have just had my personal project corrupt on me which i have been timing the total work on totaling 43 hours. Its a PSD file with multiple layers however its 1.3GB. Does anyone know any ways of recovering this.
The image is just grey noise with a black line across and all metadata has gone entirely.

I have seen a couple of dedicated PSD file recovery programs available on the 'net. Note that this is NOT a recommendation, since I haven't used any of them. However, they might be worth a careful look (with all the usual caveats about downloading).

Which version of Photoshop are you using? 5 and 6 had issues with smart objects and filters - that were corrected in some newer versions. I've also seen this happen with a bad ram segment.

Recovery of the file itself is usually not possible (though rarely can be done). Usually you have to back to an earlier version. I try to make workfile versions periodically for just this reason, though I've been lucky and not had a corruption with the new CC versions. (knock on wood).

If you'd like to throw the file on dropbox, I'd be happy to look at it.

With a psd that large you need at least 6 GB of RAM for its working space to open. What are the specs of your computer? Apparently the PSD is not corrupted, but your computer might be not capable of handling it.

Ouch, that's painful. It reminds me of my days when I was learning computers and would work all morning at my job and then turn it off for lunch. Of course everything disappeared because I didn't save it. But 43 hours would be the equivalent of a whole week at most people's jobs! Or, maybe that would only come to maybe 4 hours work time, and the other 39 hours spent looking at "art" websites, emailing people, and sipping coffee while looking out the window. You know, work. Maybe that's why I find retirement exactly like work?

I guess the messages for you if you can't recover it are to always use a tiff file, save as you go along so that you have multiple versions going, or just pitch the whole thing and get a film camera. My recommendation is for the latter, but there is no guarantee you won't shot a whole day before realizing there is no film in the camera either, or that a light leak won't ruin all the best shots . It's important to remember that all things are impermanent too, and some things are more quickly impermanent than others.

Can you open the file and use the back arrow key and see what happens. Maybe some of your stuff might still be in memory.

During your process did you save it as a psd? I'm guessing you did if you spent 43 hours on your project. After I saved my psd, I would flatten the work and save as a jpeg. I did that mainly so as I could email to the client for approval as well as the lab I used to make prints.

Ouch, that's painful. It reminds me of my days when I was learning computers and would work all morning at my job and then turn it off for lunch. Of course everything disappeared because I didn't save it. But 43 hours would be the equivalent of a whole week at most people's jobs! Or, maybe that would only come to maybe 4 hours work time, and the other 39 hours spent looking at "art" websites, emailing people, and sipping coffee while looking out the window. You know, work. Maybe that's why I find retirement exactly like work?

I guess the messages for you if you can't recover it are to always use a tiff file, save as you go along so that you have multiple versions going, or just pitch the whole thing and get a film camera. My recommendation is for the latter, but there is no guarantee you won't shot a whole day before realizing there is no film in the camera either, or that a light leak won't ruin all the best shots . It's important to remember that all things are impermanent too, and some things are more quickly impermanent than others.

Funny thing is it was a scan from a negative and i was trying to make the best possible digital file from it

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Should probably spend less time talking more time shooting but unfortunately I dont have to leave my desk to talkwww.jmongeyphoto.co.uk

Can you open the file and use the back arrow key and see what happens. Maybe some of your stuff might still be in memory.

During your process did you save it as a psd? I'm guessing you did if you spent 43 hours on your project. After I saved my psd, I would flatten the work and save as a jpeg. I did that mainly so as I could email to the client for approval as well as the lab I used to make prints.

I use CS-4 on an iMac that I bought in 2006.

Hope it works out for you.

Im using photoshop CC on my custom built PC on windows 10.

When i press the back arrow key nothing happens, I can open the original file by pressing CTR + ALT when opening it in photoshop but there is no layer data and all the edits were onto layers.

Yeah i worked onto a PSD File

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Should probably spend less time talking more time shooting but unfortunately I dont have to leave my desk to talkwww.jmongeyphoto.co.uk

Its a long shot, but try "GIMP" its a free photoshop alternative and it can open PSD files. I had one that had an error that prevented photoshop from opening the file, but GIMP was able to open it and I was able to delete the layer that was causing the issue and re-save it and it was fixed. Not sure what level of corrupt your file is but it might be worth a shot.

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